Warped, Sliced, Diced, Cut-Up Face Art

São Paulo-based artist Lucas Simões has sliced up some more of his signature portraiture with four fresh works — melting mouths around, fracturing eye sockets and turning all other facial features into expressive abstractions. There’s something violent about the series, as if the faces were smashed and fell away in gooey swirls of skin or splintered apart like intricate floorboards. We dig thissortof stuff, even if it’s not made out of porntits.